Tex Williams - Capitol Years 1946-51 AEC Video MGM and Mercury labels

MGM and Mercury labels

was an unusual artist

his active career lasting a decade or more into the new millennium

becoming famous for recording the first hit version of the timeless and much-recorded pop standard "Love Is Strange"

Tex Williams - Capitol Years 1946-51 AEC Video MGM and Mercury labelsTex Williams was one of the leading figures in the distinctive sub genre of country known as Western Swing, beginning his career as the vocalist in the highly successful band of Spade Cooley during the early 1940s, before leaving to launch his own band. He developed a highly distinctive approach to the music with a large 12 piece orchestra which he called the Western Caravan, with a dynamic blend of electric and steel guitars, fiddles, bass,